Pilot News: CSI: Miami Vet Heads to the Big Easy
Khandi Alexander by Jean-Paul Aussenard/ WireImage.com
David Simon, the mastermind behind
The Wire - which some critics and a small-but-loyal band of fans consider among the best TV shows ever - has recruited a few familiar faces to his new HBO pilot,
Treme.
Khandi Alexander (medical examiner Alexx Woods on
CSI: Miami) is in "final negotiations" to play a mother of two on the drama about life in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, according to the
Hollywood Reporter. Alexander may return to
CSI:Miami as a guest star in the future.
Treme - whose title comes from the name of a Big Easy neighborhood famous for its music and musicians - will also star Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters, both of whom played detectives on
The Wire. Pierce's
Treme character, Antoine Batiste, is a jazz trombonist struggling to find work - while still pining after Alexander's Ladonna, his former wife. -
Nina Hämmerling Smith
